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dinsdag 26 augustus 2008

K is voor...

...Kinderen. Dat gaat goed in het Nederlands. Kleinkinderen: ook al goed en ze zijn op dit blog ook goed vertegenwoordigd. maar in het Engels? Dan krijg je al gauw 'kids'. Een van mijn Engelse vrienden werd altijd boos, wanneer iemand zijn dochters zo noemde, want hij wilde geen vader zijn van jonge geiten...'Kinderen en kleinkinderen' is children and grandchildren. In Dutch beginning with K and very often shown in this blog. But in English this would be kids. This reminds me of one of my british friends, who always got angry when somebody talked about his daughters as 'kids': he said he didn't want to be the father of young goats...

Of course this brings us to kid mohair. So nice to spin, and now also to weave. I made a warp of a wool/silk blend I'd used for knitting a shawl and threaded an 'advanced twill'. My first tries to weave this, didn't make me happy: the weave became too stiff (the weft was a very thin handspun merino), the green merino I used double after that gave a more drapable effect, but it was so very green! Then I started using a kidmohair/Wensleydale blend. I'd dyed that before in a way that was described in the book 'Yarns to dye for'. Although I worried about the length of the floats I began to enjoy myself and the result became more attractive in my eyes. The lustre of the weft showed nicely as did the colour.I only had a small ball of this yarn, so I could try out a few other wefts. The white Wensleydale pleased me most in the end. I treadled a straight twill there, so the long floats didn't appear here. And perhaps I'll even try out another advancing twill now - but with a thinner material! (Click on the photo to make it bigger)

Een andere k (in het nederlands) is katoen. Ik weef daar graag mee en ook het spinnen van katoen vind ik leuk. Zo heb ik eens zakken met wattenbolletjes gekocht, (in een Franse supermarkt hebben ze gekleurde!) en die gesponnen. Ik zal het resultaat eens opzoeken en hier plaatsen. Nu nog een foto van mijn laatste weefsel, nog op het getouw maar nu wel af: het resultaat van de katoenen schering, waarvan ik eerder de foto al had laten zien, met de Clun Forest inslag. Door de afwisselende rode en grijze scheringdraden is een soort schijnpatroon ontstaan, die de keperlijn (alweer een k!) doorbreekt.Another k (in Dutch) is katoen (cotton). I like to weave with that and I also enjoy spinning cotton. Once I bought bags full of cottonwool balls (in a French supermarket they sold coloured ones!) and span those. I'll try to find the result of that and put up a picture here. Now a picture of my latest weave, still on the loom but I've finished the weaving - it's waiting to be wet finished: it's the result of the cotton warp I photographed a few blogs ago, with the Clun Forest weft. The alternating red and grey warp ends made the twill line of the 2/2 twill disappear - although on the picture it's more visible than in reality. By the way: twill = keper in Dutch! Another k.